Biden may time confirmation votes to protect House majority
President-elect s decision to tap several House Democrats for administrative positions is putting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically tough spot
Joe Biden’s decision to tap several House Democrats for administrative positions is putting Speaker
Nancy Pelosi in a politically tough spot, having chiseled away at the party’s already slimming majority and leaving her potentially without enough votes to pass his legislative agenda.
Democrats already were heading into the new Congress with a razor-thin margin over Republicans. But Biden’s overture to a third lawmaker, Rep.
Deb Haaland, D-N.M., as the history-making first Native American interior secretary, set off a fresh round of pained conversations on what to do. Pelosi will start the Biden era with a narrow majority, 222-211, with a few races still undecided.
Longtime SC Democratic Party icon and professor Don Fowler has died John Monk and Maayan Schechter, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Dec. 16 COLUMBIA, S.C. Don Fowler, a longtime icon, teacher and master of South Carolina Democratic Party politics, died at his Columbia home Tuesday night.
He was 85.
News of his death was confirmed by state Democratic Party chairman Trav Robertson. The Democrat s Democrat, Don Fowler passed away this evening, Robertson tweeted Tuesday night. He was a professor, father, chair of the DNC, chair of the SCDP, campaign guru, supporter, but most of all . a friend. I shall miss his advice and long letters. Our love goes out to Carol, Donnie and Cissy.